Bitflu – free opensource BitTorrent client in openSUSE

Bitflu is a free opensource BitTorrent client released under “The Artistic License”. Bitflu is written in Perl and is designed to run as a daemon on Linux, *BSD and maybe even OSX.

Features include

Multiple downloads at the same time
Supports IPv6
Designed to run as a daemon
Connect using Telnet and web Interface
Can chroot itself and drop privileges for security
Bandwith shaping (currently only upload)
Crash-Proof – Crashes or a full filesystem will never corrupt your downloads
Non-Threading/Non-Forking design: All connections are handled in non-blocking state using a dynamic select loop

Install Bitflu in openSUSE

Click this 1-click installer hosted by packman to install bitflu on openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3

This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories, download and install bitflu and the dependencies. Click next on the bitflu installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install bitflu and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.